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Gore Vows More Spontaneous Campaign (Let it rip he said)Barf Alert
ap ^ | 6/29/2002 | ap

Posted on 06/29/2002 7:09:58 PM PDT by TLBSHOW

Gore Vows More Spontaneous Campaign

Gore Promises More Spontaneous, Less Restrained Campaign if He Runs for President in 2004

MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 29 — Al Gore told top Democratic fund-raisers Saturday that the party's 2000 campaign had too many consultants and that if he runs for president again he will speak from the heart and "let it rip."

The former vice president attended a weekend retreat with about 60 fund-raisers and Democratic Party activists from across the country.

Reporters were barred from the meetings, but aides and others said Gore promised a different kind of campaign than the Democrats ran in 2000, when he lost to George W. Bush.

Gore said that campaign had "too much strategy, too many consultants giving too much advice," said Chris Korge, a party fund-raiser from Miami.

"If he were to do this again ... he would not be so guarded. He would let it rip and let the chips fall where they may," Korge quoted Gore as saying.

Strategy sessions for this year's November elections were the main focus of the retreat.

In brief comments in a hotel hallway, Gore said he was "extremely encouraged by the level of enthusiasm ... that we're going to have a successful 2002 election."

He said that that encouragement also applied to his possible second run for the presidency.

"Well, sure, but I'm not addressing that decision this weekend and probably won't until after the first of the year," he said.

Gore said he "would spend more time speaking from the heart" on "the basic challenges of the country."

"We're at a time when very basic decisions have to be made about the direction of our country, and I don't think the American people want to see small tactical moves in one direction or another" by political candidates, he said.

Since the 2000 election, the former Tennessee congressman and senator has spent a lot of time in his home state, where he and wife Tipper recently bought a $2.3 million home in Belle Meade, an affluent community bordering Nashville.

Gore said he plans to campaign heavily in Tennessee for the state's Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate and governor.


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To: choicenotecho
PING!
241 posted on 07/01/2002 2:02:25 PM PDT by maxwell
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To: Carolina
Is that like his version of "Let's Roll?"

you mean "Let us roll!!!" Wow, what a man!
242 posted on 07/01/2002 2:03:48 PM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
other Dem candidates are going to have to damage Gore
Gore's the front-runner?? Bwahahahaha! Oh, stop it, the Dem's are killing me! Gore did the ultimate damage to himself during the last presidential campaign! He opens his mouth now and sounds like a clown, to top it all off. If he's their frontrunner, then they are in serious trouble.
243 posted on 07/01/2002 2:06:31 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: TLBSHOW
Oh goody, we haven't met spontaneous Algore yet. Bet this has been focus grouped and push polled to death?? This should be worth some laughs!

Pray for GW and the Elections

244 posted on 07/01/2002 2:10:13 PM PDT by bray
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To: GulliverSwift
bttt
245 posted on 07/01/2002 4:30:26 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Paul Atreides
bump
246 posted on 07/09/2002 6:11:26 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Jimer
bump
247 posted on 07/10/2002 8:55:48 PM PDT by timestax
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